National Geographic History - USA (2022-05 & 2022-06)

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EDITORS OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Cut from a sheer cliff face around 2,000 years ago, 30 caves in India are home to sacred spaces a ...

CARVED IN TIME The Buddhist cave temples near Ajanta in India were cut out of the cliffs above the Waghora River between the sec ...

A long a horseshoe-shaped cliff above the Waghora River in cen- tral India, a cadre of British soldiers set out in 1819 hoping t ...

DIVINE VISIONS Buddhas and bodhisattvas adorn the ceiling of Cave 10, one of the oldest at Ajanta. The cave dates to the first c ...

India’s Deccan Plateau with roughly 135,000 cubic miles of lava. When the dust settled and the lava cooled, the entire region wa ...

SACRED SPACES India’s Ajanta Caves contain some of the world’s oldest and most breathtaking Buddhist art, including carved shrin ...

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BENOY BEHL /NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICBENOY BEHL/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVING COLORS Many of the cave walls in Ajanta were covered with d ...

Padmapani stands as guardian, offering a vision of peace to all who enter. Statues of bodhisattvas greet visitors to the caves, ...

COMPASSIONATE WELCOME The life-size figure of Padmapani, the bodhisattva (one on the path to enlightenment) of compassion, has g ...

to photograph the frescoes with the new Ekta- chrome color film, but the heat was so intense the emulsion melted. Wentzel eventu ...

CONTINUING WORSHIP Today, the Ajanta Caves are one of the most popular sites in India. The caves’ visions of Buddha draw a wide ...

DISCOVERIES in the silty waters. A lack of investment and suitable technology meant the Nan- hai No. 1 remained on the seafloor ...

DISCOVERIES local fishermen away with mis information of live World War II–era bombs in the area. A plan to raise the Nanhai No. ...

waters in which the wreck was discovered. In these carefully monitored condi- tions, archaeologists contin- ue to study the wrec ...

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96 MAY/JUNE 2022 DISCOVERIES of Guangzhou (also known as Canton) on the Pearl Delta, which, along with Quanzhou and Xiamen, was ...

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